Rebirth is instantaneous. Justification is instantaneous. But sanctification is a lifelong process. It involves a diligent struggle against a multitude of obstacles.
Puesto que no tenemos el poder de ser en nosotros mismos, no duraríamos ni un segundo sin su poder sustentador. Eso es parte de la providencia de Dios.
Podemos estar seguros de que ser culpables de pecado no nos descalifica del privilegio de venir a la presencia de Dios. El salmista no está hablando de cometer pecado, sino de permitirlo. Los puritano...
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid (John 14:27).
Our joy is to come from the assurance that we have redemption in Christ. The greatest joy that a person can have is to know that his name is written in the Lamb’s Book of Life, that he is saved and wi...
One of the chief functions of miracles in the New Testament, according to the apostolic testimony, was to authenticate agents of revelation, such as the apostles. God attested that these people were s...
Nicole, and Earl D. Radmacher labored very hard
Man alone can think of the future and speculate upon or imagine a better life than he currently enjoys or could ever bring to pass, and this is the source of his misery.
Let us examine briefly a formula that has had some currency in our day: The Bible is the Word of God, which errs. Now let us expunge some of these words. Remove The Bible is, so that the formula reads...
Legalism is concerned simply with external conformity and is blind to internal motivation.
Las personas no regeneradas son, en el mejor de los casos, indiferentes a las cosas de Dios. Más a menudo son abiertamente hostiles hacia él. Ah, sí, puede parecer que algunos están buscando a Dios, p...
La gente me ha dicho en muchas ocasiones que el cristianismo no se trata de reglas y normas; se trata de amor. Eso sencillamente no es cierto. El cristianismo se trata del amor, pero eso es así porque...
La Biblia dice que hay ciertas cosas que Dios ha decretado desde la eternidad. Tales cosas sucederán inevitablemente. Si tú oraras individualmente o si tú y yo uniéramos fuerzas en oración, o si todos...
It is the highest expression of faith to submit to the sovereignty of God. The real prayer of faith is the prayer that trusts God no matter whether the answer is yes or no. It takesno faith to claim,...
It is not the Word of God because the church says so; but that the Word of God might be spoken, therefore the church comes into being. The church does not make the Word, but it is made by the Word.
In short, no prayer of any human being ever uttered in history ever changed the mind of God in the slightest, because His mind doesn't ever need to be changed.
In discussions among the participants at the summit and because of requests to the Draft Committee, there was considerable sentiment for striking the words sixty-six canonical books from the early dra...
If you are baptized, you have in your body the mark of your participation in the suffering of Christ, because we are buried with Him in baptism.
If we asked one hundred Christians to answer this question, Which comes first, regeneration or repentance? I imagine that ninety out of a hundred would say repentance comes first. However, it doesn’t...
If to secure our redemption Christ only needed to make an atonement for us, he could have come down from heaven and gone directly to the cross. But he also had to fulfill all righteousness by submitti...